There are many from Swiss Neolithic waterlogged settlements... see e.g. Schweingruber 1976. Most of these handles are of ash-wood! Stefanie jacomet Prof. Dr. Stefanie Jacomet Institute for Prehistory and Archaeological Science IPAS Basel University Spalenring 145 CH-4055 Basel Tel. +41 61 201 02 11 mobile: +41 79 322 39 17 Internet: http://pages.unibas.ch/arch/start.html (IPAS) or http://archaeology.unibas.ch/ -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: The archaeobotany mailing list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Im Auftrag von Tjasa Korencic Gesendet: Mittwoch, 15. November 2006 12:39 An: [log in to unmask] Betreff: wood handle in archaeological axe Does anybody know for any publication of wet wood find, that was found as handle in an axe from archaeological sites? Thanks in advance, Tja¹a from Slovenia